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Know which keyword sells, not just which reel went viral

Views are a vanity number with a good publicist. What you actually need to know is how many people got the DM, how many tapped the link, and which word made them do it. That is four numbers, and they are all counted from real events on your account.

Short answer

Every automation writes an event when a comment is captured, a DM is delivered, a link is clicked and a form is submitted. Analytics reads that log, so you get click through rate per keyword and per automation over the last 90 days.

Last 30 days, example account

Comments captured1,284DMs delivered1,247Link clicks742Form submissions318

The four numbers

Comments captured

How many comments matched a trigger. The top of the funnel, and the number that tells you whether the post or the keyword is the problem.

DMs delivered

Messages Instagram actually accepted. Kept separate from comments on purpose, because the gap between the two is where a policy window closed.

Link clicks

Every button tap, counted through a redirect on our side. This is the number that turns a DM automation into something you can put a value on.

Form submissions

When a form is attached, submissions sit on the same timeline, so the funnel reads DM sent, then click, then submit, end to end.

Four ways to slice them

Per keyword

DMs and clicks side by side for each of your top keywords. GUIDE might send triple what PRICE sends and convert half as well.

Per automation

Totals for every automation you have running, so an old one quietly outperforming the new one is visible rather than assumed.

Daily series

A day by day line for the last 90 days. A reel that keeps getting recommended shows up here as a long tail rather than a single spike.

Live activity

The most recent events as they happen, with the handle and keyword. Useful the moment you set something live and want to see it work.

Why the click number changes how you post

Once clicks are visible, the guessing stops. A reel with a tenth of the views can send more people to your checkout, and you will only find that out if the tap is counted. Most people rewrite their DM copy in the first week for exactly this reason.

The other habit it builds is testing one thing at a time. Same offer, two keywords, two DMs. The one with the better click through wins on evidence rather than on taste, and taste is expensive.

Questions people ask first

Where do the numbers come from?

An event log. Every captured comment, delivered DM, link click and form submission writes a row, and every chart is a query over those rows. Nothing is modelled or estimated.

How are link clicks tracked?

Buttons in the DM point at a short link on our side that counts the tap and then redirects to your destination. The person lands where they expected, and the click is on your dashboard.

Does Instagram give me this?

Not for DMs. Instagram Insights covers reach and engagement on posts. It does not tell you how many people tapped the link inside a message, which is usually the number that matters to a creator selling something.

How far back does it go?

Up to 90 days in the range picker, with today and yesterday broken out separately so you can see what a new post is doing right now.

Can I get the raw data out?

Form submissions export to CSV, and a webhook destination gives you every submission in real time. If you want the event stream itself somewhere, ask us, it is a reasonable thing to want.

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